Mary Nestor, Millie Tullis and James Butler write that a recent opinion essay presented a distorted view of the possibilities of asynchronous course design. Many institutions now offer effective ...

Instant-messaging tools like Slack have become the primary way to collaborate in real time. These tools made remote work possible but have also contributed to burnout and mental-health issues. Some ...

The benefit of “remote work” is that it should enable greater freedom and flexibility — yet for many, it’s led to be even more inundated with communications, back-to-back meetings and extended working ...

Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Eleven years ago, researchers warned in the journal ...

The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

The Qt6 framework is widely used, particularly for its powerful tools for creating user interfaces for embedded devices with C++. However, its applications extend beyond embedded systems. This article ...

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

Take advantage of the ability to create and consume data streams asynchronously in C# 8.0 to improve the performance of your applications. Asynchronous programming has been around for quite a while ...